Wow, we just got home from vacation. There’s a reason this only happens once a year. Here’s how smart my husband and I are: We took three teenagers who already know everything out of a spacious house with rooms you can remove yourself to and put them in a closed-in vehicle for 12 hours followed by 10 days 24/7 in two small adjoining rooms for quality family bonding time.

During her life, Mary Lois Smith spent some 30 years as an educator, was one of the first three women officers with the Elizabethtown Police Department, saw the integration of schools, survived cancer and made a lot of friends.

She has served on the boards for the Hardin County History Museum and Hardin County Historical Society and has been an officer for a variety of historical organizations at the local, state and national level.